Alice Walker Quotes, Hurt Quotes, Eye Quotes

We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we feel we are weak when the reality of ourselves is exposed- is made much more bearable when it is shared, face to face, in words that have expressive human eyes behind them.

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I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

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Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

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Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

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I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself, actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something, no maybe junior and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.

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My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.

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I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.

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For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

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All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

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Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat.

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It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.

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Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

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It is natural to want to have a future.

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I think colors are miraculous. We live in a universe that is extremely creative and magical. We become happier as we appreciate these things in nature.

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Storytelling, you know, has a real function. The process of the storytelling is itself a healing process, partly because you have someone there who is taking the time to tell you a story that has great meaning to them. They're taking the time to do this because your life could use some help, but they don't want to come over and just give advice. They want to give it to you in a form that becomes inseparable from your whole self. That's what stories do. Stories differ from advice in that, once you get them, they become a fabric of your whole soul. That is why they heal you.

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The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.

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It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period

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I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.

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I'm not [a Buddhist]. The whole point of anything that is really, truly valuable to your soul, and your own growth, is not to attach to a teacher, but rather to find out what the real deal is in the world itself. You become your own guide. The teachings can help you, but really, we're all here with the opportunity the reality of hereness. We all have that. I trust that...I'm just not interested in labels. I find all of them constrictive. They're hard to wear. And they're hard to wear because we're always - hopefully - growing.

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